Kenwood KDC BT31U & Amplified Shark Fin

[didier doblo]

Hi peeps

I got my helloooos out of the way but I now need help please...

Just bought a new head unit to replace the tape player in my 06 Doblo van. I trounced through the posts on here and am a bit confused (don't take much). Now, what will I have to do to replace the head unit? Permanent live for memory... do the supplied cables sort it?
Also, I have bought a Redline amplified shark fin as the aerial is knackered, I presume that this needs to be connected to a permanent live also? As you can tell my tinkering with vehicles is limited. Please help as I can't drive without tuneage.

Muchas Gracias

Chris

p.s. Great site BTW :worship:

 

[volxstu]

Hiya welcome to the forum. The wiring on the new head unit should sort the permanent live issue. You just unplug the red wire and plug it into the spare yellow. They should be on bullet connectors.

As for the Aerial i havnt got a clue. I havnt hooked up an aerial in any of my cars for years. I have had the adaptor to do so in my pocket for about 2 months lol.

 

[didier doblo]

Hiya welcome to the forum. The wiring on the new head unit should sort the permanent live issue. You just unplug the red wire and plug it into the spare yellow. They should be on bullet connectors.

As for the Aerial i havnt got a clue. I havnt hooked up an aerial in any of my cars for years. I have had the adaptor to do so in my pocket for about 2 months lol.

Cheers for that... Not sure when I can install it chores come first (according to the boss) read some info and other people have connected it to the remote wire. If anyone else has any info it would be much appreciated.

 

[wilko1992]

iv got one of them aerials from redline on me punto and its crap! i ended cutting off the wire to amplerfy the signal as i was geting a very poor signal with it been live and when i connected the outer cores of the wire to the outer core of the car aerial it lost all signal so iv got just the inner core`s connected and get half decent signal better if i put my hand over it tho

 

[didier doblo]

iv got one of them aerials from redline on me punto and its crap! i ended cutting off the wire to amplerfy the signal as i was geting a very poor signal with it been live and when i connected the outer cores of the wire to the outer core of the car aerial it lost all signal so iv got just the inner core`s connected and get half decent signal better if i put my hand over it tho

Think i've sorted it.... On the Kenwood iso block you have to swap yellow and red around for the
memory, however, as the unit has bluetooth hands free, if you're on the phone through the head unit, if the ignition gets switched off then you are effectively putting the phone down cos the radio switches off. My old iso block was a halfords one as one of my previous radios was a kenwood. On this iso block there is another live feed coming from the same red, I have yellow and red from van wiring plugged straight into the one red that is split.

As for the shark fin, mine is working. The existing aerial cable to stereo needs to be stripped and the inner core only connected on both. If you try to connect all the aerial wire it will short. Cut the outer sheath back but leave some inner sheath to avoid a short out. Connect only the inner cores together with scotch block. I used some speaker wire and connected the shark fin live feed to to the brown spare wire on the iso block. All I have to do is route this wire through the dash and scotch block them. SWEET!

 

[didier doblo]

What a palava! BEWARE you have to hack the hole to get this to fit as the thread is bigger. Thinking now I will replace the dash speakers for some 2 way ones thinking a bout getting http://reviews.halfords.com/4028/680884/reviews.htm loadsa power any ideas?